Monitoring Smalltalk

Hello -

We would like to implement dynaTrace monitoring on an application written in smalltalk (programming language). Is there any precedent for people using dynaTrace to monitor backend services that are built with this language?

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In theory, since I believe that Smalltalk can call C libraries, you could use the native ADK to do this. I worked with a customer where we did this with VB and it worked just fine. If the services are important enough to you, perhaps it's worth a shot.

As an idea: to get past the tedious nature of hand-instrumenting the entire code base, the approach we took with the VB application was to write a code-generator that would read the source files and write them back out with instrumentation injected in proper places.

Please post back here if you decide to experiment with it - I'm interested in how you do.